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How Turkey's electricity distribution companies make excessive profits

How Turkey's electricity distribution companies make excessive profits

The companies make a profit of 330 to 546 percent from the electricity they provide to households.

8 February 2022

beIN Media Turkey registers journalists as 'marine workers' to prevent unionization

beIN Media Turkey registers journalists as 'marine workers' to prevent unionization

There are formally five different companies within the Digitürk platform and none of them were registered as media companies, bianet has learned.

3 February 2022

Ministry 'doesn't know' number of child workers in Turkey

Ministry 'doesn't know' number of child workers in Turkey

Responding to a parliamentary question, the minister of family and social services did not disclose the number of child workers in Turkey.

1 February 2022

‘Insulting the President’: Is it a tool to bring society into line?

‘Insulting the President’: Is it a tool to bring society into line?

According to lawyer Molu, the law on insulting the President aims to prevent or deter people from criticizing. Önderoğlu from the RSF says the law is a tool to bring people into line: Since 2014, 70 journalists have been convicted of this charge in Turkey.

27 January 2022

BBC journalists continue Turkey's first media strike in 13 years

BBC journalists continue Turkey's first media strike in 13 years

The strike continues amid cold and snow in İstanbul. We have visited the BBC journalists.

26 January 2022

Attack on columnist Demirağ: The overview of a tangled legal process

AWAITING JUSTICE FOR 985 DAYS

Attack on columnist Demirağ: The overview of a tangled legal process

A civil court of first instance gave a decision of non-jurisdiction in the trial over the attack on Yavuz Selim Demirağ, saying that it was an “attempted killing”. A high criminal court has concluded that it was an “actual bodily harm”.

19 January 2022

Gaye Boralıoğlu: Hrant Dink was a possibility

Gaye Boralıoğlu: Hrant Dink was a possibility

“A person, a good person... Novice like a child, as wise as an elder… He tries to tell people something, he isn’t after revenge, he doesn’t call people to account, he doesn’t fight. He wants to be understood, he hopes that people understand each other.”

19 January 2022

Demirören Media Group sues journalists over reports on 'unpaid loans' taken from state bank

Demirören Media Group sues journalists over reports on 'unpaid loans' taken from state bank

Because the Demirören Media failed to repay the loan, the land that it mortgaged was handed over to Ziraat Bank, which later leased the land to the company.

23 December 2021

State Council halts the ‘1 percent’ requirement for civil servants’ bonuses

UNION RIGHTS

State Council halts the ‘1 percent’ requirement for civil servants’ bonuses

Civil servants would be paid 400 lira as a bonus on the condition that their unions had at least 1 percent membership. The Council of State has halted the execution of the related article of the collective labor agreement.

22 December 2021

'Interest rates are decreasing but Turkey's debt is multiplying'

CHP VICE-CHAIR KARABIYIK

'Interest rates are decreasing but Turkey's debt is multiplying'

The gross debt stock of the central government has increased to 2.2 trillion lira over the past few months "because of wrong policies," says the CHP's Lale Karabıyık.

20 December 2021

Will Turkey declare state of emergency over economic crisis?

Will Turkey declare state of emergency over economic crisis?

A law professor close to the president suggested that "we should be prepared for a state of emergency due to the economic crisis." Economics Mustafa Sönmez has commented about the issue.

15 December 2021

Police officer didn’t attend the hearing again, judge didn’t issue a warrant

POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALIST

Police officer didn’t attend the hearing again, judge didn’t issue a warrant

The trial over the police violence against former bianet reporter Beyza Kural continued in İstanbul today, on December 10. The police officer who was supposed to attend the hearing from Diyarbakır via video conference did not attend the hearing.

10 December 2021

Video activist Oktay İnce gets back his archive seized in a police raid

3 YEARS OF STRUGGLE

Video activist Oktay İnce gets back his archive seized in a police raid

As part of an investigation over his social media messages, the police seized the 20-year archive of video activist and documentary filmmaker Oktay İnce in 2018. İnce got back his archive yesterday, on December 8, 2021.

9 December 2021

Trustee asks deceased municipal council member for written-off water debt interest

Trustee asks deceased municipal council member for written-off water debt interest

Launching a similar campaign itself, Siirt Municipality has requested damages from dismissed co-mayors Işık and Turhan and 23 municipal council members who were investigated for "writing off the default interest of outstanding water bills."

6 December 2021

Video activist Oktay İnce sentenced to prison for ‘insulting the President’

Video activist Oktay İnce sentenced to prison for ‘insulting the President’

Speaking to bianet after his final hearing, İnce says, “Enforcement officers may come all they want. They may try to collect money from the people on behalf of the President. This is my struggle now. I won’t mince matters.”

30 November 2021

Gezi trial | Kavala's arrest to continue

Gezi trial | Kavala's arrest to continue

Osman Kavala didn't attend the hearing because it became "pointless" after President Erdoğan's statements targeting him.

26 November 2021

Local journalist acquitted in case filed for 'disturbing' deputy mayor

Local journalist acquitted in case filed for 'disturbing' deputy mayor

The deputy mayor of an opposition-led district municipality in Tekirdağ had filed a case against a journalist for "disseminating personal investigation."

19 November 2021

Ill prisoner’s life at risk: Still behind bars despite being released 3 times before

Ill prisoner’s life at risk: Still behind bars despite being released 3 times before

With his intestines partially removed and no vision in one eye, Devrim Ayık is still behind bars. His mother Hülya Ayık says that the condition of her son is getting worse day by day and requests his release ahead of his hearing on November 4.

2 November 2021

Grocery shopping trips of two families highlight food inflation

Grocery shopping trips of two families highlight food inflation

The two families had to spent a significant part of their retirement pensions to buy only fruits, vegetables and bread.

14 October 2021

Merged with çArşı case, Gezi trial resumes: Osman Kavala's arrest to continue

Merged with çArşı case, Gezi trial resumes: Osman Kavala's arrest to continue

Attorneys said the merging of the two cases was against the law. After the court rejected the requests for the separation of the cases, attorneys left the courtroom.

Özgür Gündem trials: 'Solidarity became a reason for imprisonment'

Özgür Gündem trials: 'Solidarity became a reason for imprisonment'

After their acquittals were overturned, Prof. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı, RSF's Erol Önderoğlu and writer Ahmet Nesin are standing retrial for having taken part in the solidarity campaign for Özgür Gündem newspaper.

Two journalists from the Netherlands detained in northwestern Turkey

Two journalists from the Netherlands detained in northwestern Turkey

Journalists Olaf Koens and Pepijn Nagtzaam were taken into custody in Edirne, where they went to report on the refugee mobility. Detained “because they entered a military forbidden zone”, the journalists have been released after giving their statements.

28 September 2021

Court dismisses Albayrak's suit against law professor over 'Paradise Papers' articles

Court dismisses Albayrak's suit against law professor over 'Paradise Papers' articles

Serhat Albayrak, the brother of President Erdoğan's son-in-law, had sued Prof. Akdeniz for sharing a court order banning a news article about his offshore accounts in Malta.

23 September 2021

Sakarya fireworks blast: Amount of stored explosives was above legal limits, experts find

Sakarya fireworks blast: Amount of stored explosives was above legal limits, experts find

Seven workers were killed and 127 were injured by the explosion in a fireworks factory last year in Sakarya, northwestern Turkey. An expert report has found the owners of the factory to be the "primary negligent party."

22 September 2021

Freedom House report: Turkey is not free on the net

Freedom House report: Turkey is not free on the net

Turkey is the country with the fastest decline in internet freedom, according to Gürkan Özturan, the rapporteur for Turkey.

21 September 2021

Trustee continues debt relief campaign that dismissed HDP mayors are investigated for

Trustee continues debt relief campaign that dismissed HDP mayors are investigated for

The dismissed co-mayors of Siirt, who are members of the HDP, are investigated over a debt relief campaign for causing a decrease in municipal revenues. The trustee-led municipality has launched a similar campaign.

bianet Project Advisor Nadire Mater's press card revoked without notification

bianet Project Advisor Nadire Mater's press card revoked without notification

The cancellation of the card has been revealed after the Presidency Communications Directorate submitted its defense in the case filed by Mater.

Poll: Four possible opposition candidates lead Erdoğan, economic crisis most urgent problem

Poll: Four possible opposition candidates lead Erdoğan, economic crisis most urgent problem

About 65 percent think the economic crisis and unemployment are Turkey's most urgent problems. The opposition alliance is slightly ahead of the ruling alliance in the parliamentary election poll.

Worker wins the legal struggle 4 years after her dismissal

PRESSURE, MOBBING, HARASSMENT

Worker wins the legal struggle 4 years after her dismissal

Having protested in front of the Yazaki Factory in Bursa for 43 days after being dismissed from her job “due to her low performance” in June 2017, Dilek Gültekin has won her lawsuit for damages and reinstatement.

Man on trial for abusing his child files complaint against journalist

Man on trial for abusing his child files complaint against journalist

Charged with abusing his child, Refik Y. who spent weeks under arrest. He filed a complaint against bianet's Evrim Kepenek, who reported on the case.

Journalist faces prison sentence for sharing an article about a senior military officer

Journalist faces prison sentence for sharing an article about a senior military officer

Journalist Ahmet Kanbal faces up to three years in prison for "marking a counterterrorism official as a target."

The responsibility and irresponsibility of the state in forest fires

The responsibility and irresponsibility of the state in forest fires

The state is in place. But where are forests, the creatures living there, the deceased people, the living spaces of people, their houses, gardens, schools? We don’t have forests, we don’t have animals, people or nature. There is trauma and sorrow.